scholarly journals Biotests in Ecotoxicology: Current Practice and Problems

10.5772/64776 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariyana Lyubenova ◽  
Silvena Boteva
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice

Translating Principles of Speech Science to Clinical Practice: Current and Future Trends in Craniofacial Disorders

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Zajac
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Behavioral Management ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Opinion Article

Abstract The purpose of this opinion article is to review the impact of the principles and technology of speech science on clinical practice in the area of craniofacial disorders. Current practice relative to (a) speech aerodynamic assessment, (b) computer-assisted single-word speech intelligibility testing, and (c) behavioral management of hypernasal resonance are reviewed. Future directions and/or refinement of each area are also identified. It is suggested that both challenging and rewarding times are in store for clinical researchers in craniofacial disorders.

Principles of Solution Focused Therapy and Their Application to Audiology

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
James C. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Therapy Approach ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Client Centered Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Solution Focused Therapy

The concept of client-centered therapy (Rogers, 1951) has influenced many professions to refocus their treatment of clients from assessment outcomes to the person who uses the information from this assessment. The term adopted for use in the professions of Communication Sciences and Disorders and encouraged by The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is patient-centered care, with the goal of helping professions, like audiology, focus more centrally on the patient. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the principles used in a patient-centered therapy approach first described by de Shazer (1985) named Solution-Focused Therapy and how these principles might apply to the practice of audiology. The basic assumption behind this model is that people are the agents of change and the professional is there to help guide and enable clients to make the change the client wants to make. This model then is focused on solutions, not on the problems. It is postulated that by using the assumptions in this model audiologists will be more effective in a shorter time than current practice may allow.

Routine Cross Matching of Blood for Major Upper GI Resectoins: Do we Need to Change the Current Practice?

Endoscopy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
PC Munipalle ◽  
JL Clements ◽  
BR Gopinath ◽  
PA Davis ◽  
YKS Viswanath
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice ◽  
Upper Gi ◽  
Cross Matching

Analysis of relations in the state sector of Russian public procurement

2018 ◽  
pp. 106-126
Author(s):  
O. V. Anchishkina
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
The State ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Contractual Relations ◽  
State Organizations ◽  
State Organization ◽  
Negative Factors

The paper deals with a special sector of public procurement — G2G, in which state organizations act as both customers and suppliers. The analysis shows the convergence between contractual and administrative relations and risks of transferring the negative factors, responsible for market failures, into the administrative system, as well as the changing nature of the state organization. Budget losses in the sector G2G are revealed and estimated. There are doubts, whether the current practice of substitution of market-based instruments for administrative requirements is able to maintain integrity of public procurement in the situation of growing strategic challenges. Measures are proposed for the adjustment and privatization of contractual relations.

Use of vent stack temperature as a feedforward variable for dissolver total titratable alkali (TTA) control

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (05) ◽  
pp. 261-269
Author(s):  
Wei Ren ◽  
Brennan Dubord ◽  
Jason Johnson ◽  
Bruce Allison
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Control ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Feedforward Control ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Indirect Measurement ◽  
Tight Control ◽  
Transfer Lines ◽  
Green Liquor ◽  
Process Dynamics ◽  
Downstream Processes

Tight control of raw green liquor total titratable alkali (TTA) may be considered an important first step towards improving the overall economic performance of the causticizing process. Dissolving tank control is made difficult by the fact that the unknown smelt flow is highly variable and subject to runoff. High TTA variability negatively impacts operational costs through increased scaling in the dissolver and transfer lines, increased deadload in the liquor cycle, under- and over-liming, increased energy consumption, and increased maintenance. Current practice is to use feedback control to regulate the TTA to a target value through manipulation of weak wash flow while simultaneously keeping dissolver density within acceptable limits. Unfortunately, the amount of variability reduction that can be achieved by feedback control alone is fundamentally limited by the process dynamics. One way to improve upon the situation would be to measure the smelt flow and use it as a feedforward control variable. Direct measurement of smelt flow is not yet possible. The use of an indirect measurement, the dissolver vent stack temperature, is investigated in this paper as a surrogate feedforward variable for dissolving tank TTA control. Mill trials indicate that significant variability reduction in the raw green liquor TTA is possible and that the control improvements carry through to the downstream processes.

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